Why does Palin claim to "know the mind of God?"?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_iraq_war

Answer 1

God calls us to stand up to evil.  She is right.  It's easy to know the mind of God if you read the Book He wrote.

Answer 2

I think she is delusional.

Answer 3

She no different from any other blasphemer.

Answer 4

She is pitiful

Answer 5

When I was a mental health counselor. The insane I worked with (mainly schizophrenics) made these type of claims.

Answer 6

all Evangelical Christians think they do...in that case i'm sure when her daughter told her she was pregnant Palin said "well it was the will of God".  Maybe all the teens out there should have unprotected s*x and if they get pregnant or AIDS then it must be the "will of God"...God gave us brains and common sense and values and morals for reason.  

Answer 7

She also thinks God speaks through Bush. Ha ha, he isn't too bright evidently.

Answer 8

She's hoping that people will be gullible enough to believe this, and obey her when she says, "[G]od told me that you should......etc."

Answer 9

All those religous nut jobs think they know what god wants...

They are usually wrong.

Answer 10

Fundamentalists always do. The American taliban is in no way less a threat to our enlightened civilization than their Muslim counterparts. They don't have to resort to some of the more primitive methods because they have a big part of the power of the state behind them but the attitude is nearly identical.

Since her nomination as the Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate, it has been revealed that Palin and her husband were supporters of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), a far-right outfit advocating secession from the US and dissolution of the federal government.

While Republican officials have countered these reports by citing voter registration records indicating that Sarah Palin was a registered Republican going back to 1982, the same records indicate that her husband Todd was indeed a member of the AIP, and leading members of the party report that the couple attended its 1994 convention and supported its program. Sarah Palin likewise attended the party’s 2000 convention, for which the Republicans have offered the unconvincing alibi that it was a purely ceremonial appearance which she made as mayor of the Anchorage suburb of Wasilla.

They have not accounted for the fact that earlier this year Palin sent a video message to the AIP convention, which was introduced by the party’s vice chairman George Clark, who described her as “an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town.”

What attention has been paid in the mass media to this political connection has centered largely on the “Alaska first” motto of the party, which stands in formal contradiction to the McCain campaign’s slogan of “country first.” Far more significant, however, is the fact that the AIP is the Alaskan affiliate of the Constitution Party, an ultra- rightist electoral party that emerged out of the militia movement, anti-tax extremism and the Christian fundamentalist right.

The Constitution Party puts forward a program that can be accurately described as theocratic fascism. Its commits the party “to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.” This is the program commonly identified with a movement known as “dominion theology,” which demands the subordination of every government and institution to Christian fundamentalism, not only in the US but all over the world, together with the outlawing of all other religions and the suppression of atheism.

In addition to establishing severe criminal penalties, including death, for homosexuals, doctors who perform abortions and adulterers, the believers in this Biblical state also propose a social agenda that dovetails completely with the aims of the most reactionary sections of big business. It calls for the elimination of virtually every social reform instituted over more than a century, including minimum-wage laws, Social Security, environmental and health and safety regulations, public education and virtually any form of public assistance.